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Spider-man 2
Following a failed nuclear fusion experiment that claimed the life of Dr. Otto Octavius wife, He is transformed into a cyborg with deadly metal tentacles. Blaming Spidey for the occurrence he is determined to fight him.
6 January 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 March 1966, Bombay, India
12 July 1971, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
27 January 1970, California, USA
24 January 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 October 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
June 29, 2015
This is a better picture than the first because it makes its characters human, doesn't camp it up and refuses to believe that Kerpow! Kerching! is more than a constituent part of the proceedings.
August 07, 2004
It improves on the first one: better action, better comedy.
July 14, 2010
Simultaneously funnier, darker, and more emotional than its forebear.
June 29, 2015
Spider-Man 2 is better than just dark, it's touched by authentic teenage paranoia and neurosis.
June 29, 2015
Spider-Man 2 ranks alongside Superman II and both X-Men films as the best screen adaptations of comic book heroes, a status that, as we've seen through the years, isn't as easy to master as it sounds.
June 29, 2015
Maybe it has something to do with Sam Raimi's skills as a director, or with Tobey Maguire's very human central performance, but the Spider-Man films are by far the best of the superhero genre.
July 09, 2012
The web-slinging sequences are bigger-better-brighter-faster than the already spectacular ones in 2002's Spider-Man, and at the same time, the film's smaller emotional moments are denser, richer and more resonant than those in the first.
June 29, 2015
A sequel that not only outstrips its predecessor but has a perversity and quick-wittedness that hardly seem to belong in a comic-book movie.
July 14, 2010
A lot of talent to lavish on a single movie, but the result is uncommonly smart for the genre, and not just smart but tremendously enjoyable.
June 24, 2006
All in all, this sequel is a blockbuster with both a heart and a brain.
August 05, 2013
Alfred Molina makes a more baroque supervillain than Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, but the other stars seem happy to be giving us more of the same. Sam Raimi's direction, on the other hand, is even more fluent and well paced.
June 29, 2015
The trick with Spider-Man is to swing both ways -- the superheroics and the super lack of self-esteem -- without getting mired in the dreary introspective moping that did for Ang Lee's awful Hulk. Spider-Man 2 balances it all but perfectly,